Beast Taming: My System is Bugged

For Elder Huo to have slain it on its own home ground... ’The power of an Array Beastmaster is truly terrifying.’

’If Elder Huo had managed to tame it, the payoff would have been even greater.’

Then, Gu Ming began to take stock of his own gains.

After Ah Kun devoured a large amount of Spirit Medicine imbued with the fear characteristic, its Spiritual Attribute skyrocketed.

The Devouring Secret Technique within its body was still rumbling, continuously refining the immense and bizarre Medicinal Power.

[Ah Kun is devouring and refining a rare, Spiritual-element Spirit Medicine.]

[Ah Kun is devouring and refining a rare, eerie-type Spirit Medicine.]

[Ah Kun’s Eerie Attribute +1]

[Ah Kun’s Spiritual Power +10...]

Little notifications like these kept popping up nonstop.

If Gu Ming avoided looking at Ah Kun, he could ignore the small text that kept appearing.

’But how could I possibly resist looking?’

’Ah Kun, Ah Kun... whether or not you can develop an Acquired Spiritual Root all depends on this trip.’

Those Treasure Medicines, tainted with black mist, were all top-tier Spirit Medicines. They were incredibly difficult to digest, let alone refine.

Refinement was a more advanced form of absorption than digestion. It wasn’t just about absorbing nutrients, but also converting all the power within into the body, incorporating it as part of Ah Kun’s attribute-based combat strength.

If this led to the development of a powerful Sea of Consciousness, or even a new Attribute Spiritual Root, nothing could be better.

Gu Ming turned his head to look at the "Chaos Creature," Ah Ji.

It had previously used its shadow to pull several medicinal herbs.

Although it hadn’t consumed them directly, since its shadow was an extension of its limbs, touching those eerie, Spiritual-element Spirit Medicines was the same as being affected.

Just from the look of it now, Ah Ji’s Spiritual Power had also grown slightly.

If he ground them into a medicinal powder for it to consume, its Spiritual Power would probably surge to the Three-star level.

However, there was no rush. He needed to test the dosage slowly.

Ah Ji didn’t have the ability of Devouring Evolution, so it couldn’t just gorge itself on medicine indiscriminately like Ah Kun.

As for Cyan Treasure, it went without saying. After its Breathing Technique reached the Quasi-Path Skill Level, the huge amount of "Memory Essence" it had collected in its belly were all rare-grade treasures.

In the future, once he sorted and manifested it as Memory Fragments of the Primordial Dream Butterfly, each fragment would be a priceless resource.

At this thought, Gu Ming’s heart began to pound.

’Okay, I can’t get too excited. The others probably haven’t thought of this yet.’

Gu Ming didn’t know if Elder Huo’s gains were greater than his, but in any case, his classmates’ haul couldn’t compare to his.

「Not long after.」

The team officially began their journey back.

Even with Cyan Treasure’s Quasi-Path Level Breathing Technique continuously clearing the way, purifying the chaotic Memory Essence and Spiritual Qi they encountered, the journey back was still fraught with peril. Mental pressure was omnipresent.

After nearly another full day, the group finally saw daylight again.

The moment they walked out of the dark cavern and felt the long-missed sunlight on their skin, everyone felt as if they had survived a catastrophe, like a lifetime had passed. They couldn’t help but take a deep breath of the crisp outside air.

"The Yichuan Ruins are just too insane..."

The president of the Outdoor Exploration Club murmured with lingering fear as he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

His brief moment of eye contact with the Terror Executioner—that cold silence and madness—had left an indelible brand of fear in his mind.

Gu Ming felt the same, and it couldn’t help but remind him of the bizarre nature of the "Seed of Shadow."

It was an ability from the fully-formed Executioner in the information he had from the future, one that had somehow crossed from the future into reality.

’Needless to say, it must have been a displacement bug in the system that allowed its ability to travel through time.’

’After all, in reality, it hadn’t even mastered that ability yet.’

Now, its fate was unknown; it might have been suppressed by Elder Huo.

If it really wasn’t dead, that meant the Seed of Yin and Yang could make a comeback, becoming a nightmare for everyone present.

Realizing this, Gu Ming knew he had to warn Elder Huo.

He stepped forward, his expression grave.

"Teacher Huo, earlier, some of us were implanted with a Seed of Shadow just from a single glance at that monster."

"They might seem fine for now."

"But we’ve all seen its true form, so it’s inevitable that some trace remains on a mental level."

"To be safe, I strongly suggest that after we return, everyone undergoes the strictest mental isolation, remains in seclusion in the school dorms, and is put under deep examination and observation."

"In the short term, they shouldn’t attend classes or go to crowded places."

Gu Ming’s words were a precaution against the spread of potential mental contamination.

Elder Huo’s expression suddenly grew stern. ’He’d almost overlooked that!’

It was as if some power was deliberately blurring his memory and perception of this matter.

The feeling was as if that thing’s will still lingered in the air, blurring time and making him subconsciously forget.

Jolted to his senses by Gu Ming, he immediately gave the matter his utmost attention. Fine beads of cold sweat even appeared on his temples. "Gu Ming, you’re right!"

"This was my oversight!"

"After we get back, everyone must undergo the school’s most rigorous mental scans and evaluations."

"The school will not cover any of the related costs, including medical examinations, so please be prepared!"

The students were speechless upon hearing this.

Spending money was a normal part of studying at a Private Beast Taming University.

Although the thought of the cost stung, they understood that this concerned their own safety as well as others’.

If a Seed of Shadow lay dormant and then erupted, the consequences would be unimaginable.

As the atmosphere relaxed slightly, someone couldn’t hold back their curiosity and asked in a low voice:

"Teacher Huo, that monster... was it really destroyed completely?"

If it were dead, they wouldn’t need to be so alarmed.

Only if it wasn’t dead would they need to treat the matter so seriously.

Hearing this, Elder Huo let out a cough.

He gently brushed a hand over his sleeve cuff, from which an almost imperceptible Energy Fluctuation seemed to emanate.

"It is currently in a near-dead state. I have sealed and suppressed its core."

He didn’t explicitly say where or how it was sealed.

But everyone understood the implication: an existence of that level could not be so easily destroyed.

Sealing it in his Beast Taming Space was also unlikely.

That was an important spatial organ inside a Beastmaster’s body.

If that organ were to be possessed...

The Beastmaster could even undergo Demonization. Elder Huo would not risk his own body like that.

Additionally, the members of the Outdoor Exploration Club couldn’t help but think that with such a terrifying monster subdued by Elder Huo, the Array Society would become even stronger.

Besides envying the immense benefits Elder Huo had gained, the students couldn’t help but feel a subtle sense of awe toward this elder, who usually appeared so amiable.

When Luo Yuan, the vice-monitor of the Cultivation Technique Class, learned that the creature wasn’t dead but was now hidden in Elder Huo’s sleeve, he began to tremble for some unknown reason.

The sense of terror and mystery originating from the Ancient Fierce Beast seemed to have transformed into an invisible seed, planting itself deep in his heart.

His imagination began to run wild.

Then his eyes rolled back, and he fainted, causing another flurry of activity among the group.

Gu Ming, however, looked back at the underground grotto behind them. Inside, dazzling auroras swirled, both graceful and dangerous.

’Just a roadside creature, casually swatted to death by the passing Primordial Dream Butterfly.’

’Even though it can’t compare to the Primordial Dream Butterfly...’

’If I could comprehend even a tiny fragment of its power and manifest it in the world... ’

’...its value should at least be enough to trigger the Six-Colored Holy Light, right?’

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